If the water companies had to account for their debts in the same way as a private company then they would be declared insolvent. They would be worthless and their creditors - so keen to make privatised profit - would have to accept the risks they took. We already pay for the socialised losses.

An item in my feed today included the following: "A fuller set of data from the polling was included in a GB News report. It shows that only 12 per cent more of the 40-54 age group could correctly answer the question"
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Anybody would think he'd rewritten some communist song as "Raise The Flag".

It *is* a shame he got killed just when he demanded the release of the Epstein files.

Well, twitter is a lot like like the comments in the Mail Online. You know who's there and you know they are not looking for reason, but for simplistic sentences they can chant.

You may as well go to Dudley Zoo and try and reason with the chimps that throw faeces.

Trump seemed like a clown - to us Brits, like a Monty Python character - political idiocy reduced to absurdity.
Trump's accolades interfere in UK politics.
The UK has history of fascist supporters of Hitler (Moseley/Mail) we have modern day fascists representing trump in the UK.
We stopped laughing.

It's an important step along the path to having troops on the street in case of dissent. There'll be be no Prague Spring in Oklahoma.

I read your article, reproducted in "the Londoner ". Well written and captivating, it has convinced me to buy the book. "Basket Weavers" is quite funny - "fascist" shares its root with "fagot" via fascismo. O’Brien aped Mussolini.

History: Learn from it or condemn the rest of us to repeat it.
In the 2024, how much of the popular vote did those in favour of rejoining win compared to those absolutely committed to hard Brexit?

As recently as 2019, the LibDems were the only major party to support, at that time remaining (by not finalising Article 50). The LibDems got trounced, even though many progressive voters couldn't see the point in voting for Comrade Brexit.

The spilt harmed Labour and helped keep the Tories in power for eighteen years, during which time the Tories became so deranged trying to find an agenda they sold our monopolistic water boards to grasping profiteers.

Labour have a vested interest in the two-party system. Some of their more progressive politicians gained influence 45 years ago so a gang of 4 set up a breakaway party called "The Social Democrat Party".

If we join the EU then the fascist right will "stand down" their candidates and gift the broader right Tories an undivided 40% of the vote for an 80 seat parliamentary majority. Starmer knows this, but, like most Labour MPs/candidates, seems to prefer a comfortable career of heckling "opposition".

The insanity predates their fear of Brexiters by a century: over the years, 60% of the popular vote in British general elections goes to progressive parties, but Tories, having an undivided 30-44% have formed governments for most of those 100 years. Finally divided, the tory minority lost. PR now

Some people approach critical thinking as if it is a marathon challenge and prefer the comforting sofa of lazy emotion. Looks like she's attempting to grift the hard-of-thinking. There are thousands who feel funding such, apparently swivel-eyed, gobshites somehow hits back at those they don't like.

Labour won't lose many votes to Reform, so I can understand Starmer seeing a strong Reform Ltd as a vote splitter for the right rather than a threat to Labour.
Vote Reform Ltd - get racism; vote Tory - get racism; vote Labour... Where do we go? We need to move en masse to LD or Green, but not split

...and, predictably, BBC Radio Four's Today Programme gave air time to Dick Tice. Tice boasted Starmer had admitted Reform Limited were right. The interviewer tried to question Tice on policies and Tice repeated his claim Labour were following Reform Limited. Reform followers don't need detail.

We can all laugh at Badenoch, I know I have, repeatedly. Badenoch has finally got one over Starmer: following the collapse of the Tory vote in the bye election and the council elections, Badenoch will not “chase Reform to the right”. Meanwhile Starmer is stigmatising international student visas.

Yes, Labour lost these seats much more than anybody else actually won them.

Many of us lent votes to Labour and will return to Greens or LibDems.